Pen-holder and ink-eraser



E. HOLMES. PENHOLDER AND IN]! BRASER.

PATENTED MAY 17, 1864.

- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

D. E. HOLMES, OF HALIFAX, MASSACHUSETTS.

PEN-HOLDER AND lNK-ERASER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 42,769, dated May 17, 1864.

7 To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, D. E. HOLMES, of Halifax, in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Pen-Holder, Calendar, and Ink-Eraser Combined; andI do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my invention when used for writing. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same when used for erasing.

Similar letters of reference in both views indicate corresponding parts.

This invention consists in an inkeraser having a file cut on one or more sides, and one or more of its other sides polished for the purpose of smoothing down the paper. This ink-eraser is attached to a pen-holder, which is provided with aperpetual calendar, secured by means of the eraser, and with an ordinary socket for holding the steel pen on the .end opposite to the eraser in such a manner that the date can be ascertained at any moment by a-simple glance at the calendar, and the holder can be used in the ordinary manner for writing, or by turning it over any 'mistakes made can be corrected by the aid of the eraser.

To enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents a pen-holder, made of wood or any other suitable material in the ordinary shape and manner. The socket B, into which the pen is inserted, is made of sheet metal and fastened to one end of the holder in the usual way. G is the eraser, which is made of a piece of steel with a sharp point, one or more of its sides being provided with a filecut, a, andv its other side or sides being rounded and polished for the purpose of smoothing the paper after the erasing has been accomplished. The toothed side a is slightly convex,and it narrows gradually down to the point, so that it can be conveniently applied to the surface of the paper in the position shown in Fig. 2, and that it can be applied with facility to fine and to coarse lines.

The eraser is bored out and threaded, so that it forms a nut which screws on the end of a pin, 12, that is firmly inserted into the end of the holder A. This pin extends through a sleeve, D, which is made of the same size as the holder, and when the eraser is screwed on the end of the pin 1) said sleeve apparently forms one piece with the holder.

F is a slip of paper, metal, or other suitable material, which is fastened round the end of holder next to the sleeve D, and this slip is marked with the seven names of the days of the week. A similar slip of paper, E, is pasted around the sleeve D, and this slip is marked with figures from 1 to 31, arranged in columns to correspond to the divisions of the slip E, containing the days of the week in the usual manner of perpetual almanacs or calendars. By unscrewing the eraser the sleeve D is released so that it can be rotated and the figures adjusted according to the day corresponding to the date. If properly adjusted at the end or beginning of each month, it requires no further attention, and the correct date can be ascertained throughout the whole year.

By this combination a pen-holder is produced which is very convenient in every respect. The application of the eraser and calendar does not much increase the cost of the pen-holder, and by its use the calendar and eraser are always in convenient reach when wanted.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The eraser 0, provided with one or more toothed sides, a, and one or more polished sides, I), as and for the purpose set forth.

2. As a new article of manufacture, the combined pen-holder, calendar, and eraser, constructed substantially as herein shown and described.

1). E. HOLMES.

Witnesses NATHANIEL MORTON, G. W. POPE. 

